Three months, zero alcohol

What it feels like to take three months off from drinking.

Today marks the end of our three month period of no alcohol (Jan 1–Mar 31). 

Some thoughts: 

• Saying yes to a drink is no longer automatic. That’s probably the best thing to have happened. 

• I feel great, and I’ve lost 5kg. Partly due to a better diet (to help with CFS symptoms) and partly due to no alcohol. I’ve had to throw out my jeans and buy new ones.

• Alcohol often turns reasonable, pleasant people into unreasonable, unpleasant people. Not always, but often enough to make me think twice about having more than 2-3 drinks in a sitting. Slurring, falling over, and acting inebriated is a lot less funny to me now. 

• Legal cannabis makes it a lot easier to avoid alcohol: no hangover, no calories, no dumb behavior, and it’s great for anxiety/stress/sleep/CFS pain. It’s really the opposite of alcohol in a lot of ways.